All WGS courses and the following courses are approved for WGS concentration credit and the WGS Secondary Field. Those courses offered at Harvard schools outside of FAS (e.g. Harvard Divinity School, the Graduate School of Design, etc.), require a concentration credit petition in order to count towards a WGS concentration or secondary field. The FAS courses listed below do not require a petition.
If you would like to petition to receive concentration credit for a course that is not listed below, please submit a copy of the syllabus with a completed petition to the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Fall 2019
AFRAMER 131Y Black Womens Voices in the #MeToo Era (Chavers)
CLS-STDY 152 The Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece (Weiss)
ECON 980X Personal Economics (Goldin)
EMR 136 Race, Gender, and American Empire (Waits)
ENGLISH 282A Ethnic Studies: Past, Present Future (García Peña & Kim)
ENGLISH 90MK Medieval Women and the Problem of Knowledge (Watson)
FOLKMYTH 177 Assertive Stitches: Domestic Arts and Public Conflict (Lufkin)
FRENCH 180 "The Words to Say It": Women Writing in French from Colette to Satrapi (Jardine)
FRSEMR 62R LGBT Life Stories (Schlossberg)
FRSEMR 62T Migrants in Fiction and Film: Case Studies of Love, Loss, War, and Death (Lionnet)
GENED 1016 Black Radicalism (Reid-Pharr)
GENED 1036 Global Feminisms (Mitra) counts for WGS History Foundation
GENED 1042 Anime as Global Popular Culture (Yoda)
HDS 2029 Women and Gender in U.S. Catholicism
HDS 2139 Trauma and Resilience: Empowering Those Who Care for Others (Giles)
HDS 2481 Emily Dickinson: ‘the extasy define—‘, (Hollywood & Paulsell)
HDS 3082 Leadership and Womanist Moral Traditions
HIST 13T Women in Economic Life (Rothschild)
HIS-LIT 90DU Queer Oral Histories (McGeehan Muchmore)
HIS-LIT 90DW Queering the South: Race, Gender, & Sexuality in the American South (Pope)
HIS-LIT L90EB Gender and Empire in the Modern Mediterranean (Boonstra)
RELIGION 1414 Scripture Stories of Women (Schussler Fiorenza)
RELIGION 1461 Gender, Religion and Scripture (Schussler Fiorenza)
RELIGION 1572 Sex, Gender and Sexuality (Hollywood) counts for WGS Theory Foundation
RELIGION 1829 Race and Gender in the History of Islam in the U.S. and Europe (Ahmed)
RELIGION 1844 Religion, Gender, Identity in 21st Century Diasporic Muslim Fiction (Ahmed)
ROM-STD 235A Ethnic Studies: Past, Present, and Future (García Peña & Kim)
SOCIOL 1112 Men, Women, and Work (Brinton)
SOC-STD 98PF Rethinking Transnational Feminism (Maione)
SPANSH 126 Performing Latinidad (García Peña)
TDM 90AR Production Studio - Queer Cabaret
WGH 201 Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice (Janiak)
WGH 211 Gender and Health: Introductory Perspectives (Charlton)
Spring 2020
AFRAMER 131Y Black Womens Voices in the #MeToo Era (Chavers)
AFRAMER 197X Intersectional and International Social Movements, 1920-2020 (Nagaraja)
ANTHRO 2653 Feminism and Anthropology
ARMEN 163 Revolutionary Women: Contemporary Fiction of Dissent in Context (Gulesserian)
BETH 716 Ethics in Reproductive Medicine (King)
DEV 315M Working for Change: Understanding Gender in International Development (Matuszeski)
ENGLISH 180MW Modern Women Writers: Love, Agony, Friendship
ENGLISH 280QL Queer Literature (Burt)
ENGLISH CWWR Writing Women: Workshop (Faludi)
FRENCH 136 A La Francaise: French Feminisms Today (Jardine)
FRENCH 262 Transnationalism and the Francophone World: Race, Gender, Sexuality (Lionnet)
GENED 1073 Guns in the U.S.: A Love Story (Light)
GENED 1113 Race, Gender, and Performance (Bernstein)
GHP 231 Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Global Perspective (Langer)
HDS 1404 Mothers, Diviners and Prophets: The Religious Lives of Women in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel
HDS 2050 Gender and Judaism in Modern America (Braude)
HDS 3048 Intimacy and Emotion in the Lives of Muslim Women
HIST 1005 The Early American Republic: The United States from 1783-1837 (Gordon-Reed)
HIST 1015 Native American Women: History and Myth (Miles)
HIST 97J "What is Family History?" (Kamensky)
HISTSCI 251 Feminist Science Studies (Richardson)
JAPNLIT 162 Girl Culture, Media, and Japan (Yoda)
JAPNLIT 271 Topics in Gender and Culture in Japan: Seminar (Yoda)
MLD 670 Gender and Public Policy Seminar: Promoting Diversity in Organizations (Livingston)
PHIL 17 Feminist Political Philosophy (Schouten)
PSY 1009 Psychology of Women (Noll)
RELIGION 1084 Encountering Motherhood: Sacred Histories (Patton)
RELIGION 1573 Sex, Gender, and Sexuality II (Hollywood) counts for WGS Theory Foundation
RELIGION 2549 Women, Religion, and the Problem of Historical Agency (Brekus)
SOCIOL 1058 Sex, Gender, Sexuality (Viterna)
SPANSH 146 Tropical Fantasies: The Hispanic Caribbean and Haiti in Contemporary Literature (García Peña)
WGH 207 Advanced Topics in Women, Gender and Health (Gordon)
WGH 210 Women, Gender and Health: Critical Issues in Mental Health (Gottlieb)
WGH 220 Sexuality and Public Health (Austin)